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<h1 class="topictitle1">Step 2: Enabling Local Archiving for the Database</h1>
<div><p>Before performing a backup job, local archiving must be enabled for the Dameng database. Otherwise, the backup fails.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Precautions</h4><ul><li id="dameng-00013__dameng-00012_en-us_topic_0000002012732625_li18475121815115"><span id="dameng-00013__dameng-00012_en-us_topic_0000002012732625_ph158001916133217">Unless otherwise specified, the operations in this section use Dameng 8 as an example. The operations may vary according to the database version.</span></li><li id="dameng-00013__dameng-00012_en-us_topic_0000002012732625_li135951626152410"><span id="dameng-00013__dameng-00012_en-us_topic_0000002012732625_ph1496613312326">If the Dameng database is deployed in a cluster, you need to log in to all hosts where the cluster instances reside and perform the following operations unless otherwise specified.</span></li></ul>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><ol><li><span>Log in to the Dameng database host.</span></li><li><span>Run the following command to query the path to the <strong>dm.ini</strong> configuration file:</span><p><pre class="screen">ps -ef | grep dm.ini</pre>
</p></li><li><span>Go to the directory where the configuration file is stored and run the following command to open and edit the configuration file:</span><p><pre class="screen">vim dm.ini</pre>
</p></li><li><span>In the <strong>#configuration file</strong> section of the configuration file, change the value of <strong>ARCH_INI</strong> to <strong>1</strong>.</span><p><pre class="screen">ARCH_INI = 1</pre>
</p></li><li><span>Run the following command to query the path to the <strong>dmarch.ini</strong> configuration file:</span><p><pre class="screen">find / -name dmarch.ini</pre>
</p></li><li><span>Go to the directory where the configuration file is stored and run the following command to open and edit the configuration file:</span><p><pre class="screen">vim dmarch.ini</pre>
</p></li><li><span>Change the following items in the configuration file:</span><p><pre class="screen">[ARCHIVE_LOCAL1]
ARCH_TYPE = LOCAL 
ARCH_DEST = <em>Archive file path</em>
ARCH_FILE_SIZE = <em>128</em> 
ARCH_SPACE_LIMIT = <em>0</em> </pre>
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